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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 3935468" data-attributes="member: 18549">Well, think of what's being offered, and the terms of use on the powers.An infernal warlock gets his powers from an evil being, but the being has limited control over how the warlock uses those powers.  He could go out and do nothing but rescue people from fires using his infernal resistance to flame (or whatever).  This is not likely to be too troublesome for the evil being, since perhaps the warlock had to trade over his soul or something else in order to get the powers, and evil beings aren't usually ideologically dedicated to an increase in the amount of evil there is.  They foster evil because being evil gets them advantages (souls, power, etc.); it's the morality of the extremely selfish.  They'll seed the population with kewl powers and either directly reap rewards, or promise even better powers in exchange for loyalty (which they may or may not come through with).A good being could make a pact with a warlock, also giving him powers that the good being has little control over.  That warlock could do nothing with those powers but go burn down orphanages with the burning light of goodness (or whatever).  The good creature is probably going to feel really crappy about that, and if it has any kind of foresight at all will probably not enter into that sort of pact in the first place.  Good beings are ideologically dedicated to preventing evil, and will probably not just seed the mortal population with kewl powers and hope for the best.  If something goes wrong, it will be a disaster, because evil will be done by their interference.Good has more invested in the outcome than evil does.  Evil probably gets a charge out of putting the temptation for evil into the hands of those who wouldn't necessarily be able to perpetrate evil without the kewl powers.  Evil warlocks are probably those who were wronged and looked for a quick path to power so that they could avenge themselves, but may not have started out evil; putting a metaphysical gun in their hands caused them to turn toward evil.  A theoretical good warlock was almost certainly good to begin with.  If not, what's to stop him from using his powers for evil.  In fact, a previously good person suddenly in possession of kewl powers might be tempted to evil for the same reasons the evil warlock was.  When you've got a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail, right?  So the best way to keep people from getting nailed is to not hand out hammers.  And a good being would probably see that right away.</blockquote>

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